Thyme tea (thyme)
Thyme, thyme, Bogorodskaya grass - all these are the names of the same plant, which has a whole set of healing properties.
Priests and healers knew about the healing properties of thyme. Even Avicenna used him in the manufacture of his healing potions and elixirs.
Thyme contains a huge amount of essential oils that exhibit antibacterial properties, killing fungal infections and microorganisms that are harmful to our body.
Possessing a unique aroma, it calms down and helps the body to relax and heal.
Composition
Thyme is a storehouse of a vitamin-mineral complex.
100 g of Bogorodskaya grass contains the following substances necessary for our body:
- Essential oils.
- Vitamins: C - 160 mg, PP - 1.8 mg, group B - 46.3 mg
- Minerals: K - 0.6 g, Ca - 0.4 g, Mg - 0.16 g, Na - 9 mg, P - 0.1 mg, Mn - 0.01 g, Zn - 0.02 g, Cu - 0.56 mg
Beneficial features
It should be noted that tea with thyme is brewed for about 10 minutes and consumed immediately after infusion.
To enhance the taste and beneficial properties will help additives: cinnamon, peppermint or lemon, honey.
Thyme tea benefits:
- Thyme tea is a drink that brings both pleasure and treats at the same time. With an indescribable fragrance, he won a lot of fans. Tea is useful for people with weak immune systems.
- Thyme tea is a pain reliever.
- Another interesting property that thyme tea has is thermoregulation. In the heat it is refreshing, and in the cold it warms.
- Being a tonic drink, it is indispensable for people engaged in mental activity.
- Thyme tea normalizes the intestinal microflora and therefore recommended for people suffering from dysbiosis. For this article. spoon raw pour 2 tbsp. water and put on fire. Remove as soon as boils. After an hour of infusion, take 0.5 cups inside of 3 r. in a day. Depending on the severity of the disease, the duration of treatment is up to 2 months.
- The components of thyme tea affect the human body at the cellular level, protecting and strengthening cells, as well as establishing the metabolic processes occurring in them.
- It is a mild laxative.
- It removes sputum from the body, therefore it is recommended for bronchitis, cough and cold. Relieves irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane, kills germs. In this case, mint, St. John's wort, rosehips and currant leaves are used as herbal supplements. This mix is a powerful tool that quickly put on his feet.
- Thyme tea is a remedy that helps get rid of worms.
- It has the ability to disinfect and disinfect.
- It is an antidepressant.
- Helps to relieve stress, a wonderful sedative of plant origin.
- Useful to the male body for violations in the intimate sphere.
- Tea with Bogorodskaya grass is the antipode of alcohol. Therefore, if the “green serpent” defeated any of your relatives, spend with him thyme therapy. Drinking tea will cause persistent disgust and rejection of alcohol.
- Tea with Bogorodskaya grass will make the breath fresh, eliminate the unpleasant smell, if any.
In fact, if you are not worried about the above listed diseases, you can drink thyme tea for pleasure. Plus, it will serve as an excellent prophylactic against many diseases.
Harm and contraindications
Thyme tea is a unique drink.
However, with all the huge availability of nutrients in it for our body, there are a number of contraindications in its use:
- Pregnancy.
- Children who have not turned 3 years old can not eat tea with thyme.
- People with thyroid disease.
- A stomach ulcer.
- In the presence of kidney disease.
- With liver disease.
- Heart failure.
- Bronchial asthma.
- Hypertension.
Thyme tea can be consumed for about 2 weeks, but no more. Next, you should take a break for 2 or 3 months. Before using tea based on thyme, consultation with a specialist will not hurt.
How to brew
The easiest way is to pour 2-3 sprigs of thyme with water and put it on fire. As soon as boils, remove.
Very useful, aromatic and tasty drinks are obtained from a mixture of various herbs, which include thyme:
- Lingonberry leaves (4 g) and 20 g of Hypericum and thyme
- Black tea (10 g), to which is added a mixture of the following herbs - St. John's wort, thyme (leaves), valerian (root in a shredded state). Their ratio is 2: 1: 1.
- Thyme (dry) and black tea. Proportions 1: 1. In the finished tea, you can add 1 tbsp. a spoon of honey.
Calorie content
100 ml. Thyme tea contains 2.5 kcal.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Medicinal properties of tea and thyme will help:
- Improve the skin of the face. For its preparation you need to mix coltsfoot, thyme, chamomile and lavender. This tool can be drunk three times a day.
- A mixture of green tea and thyme flowers will help relieve cramps, pain and calm down. It is poured boiling water. After a quarter of an hour, tea is ready to drink.
- Incredibly delicious tea is obtained with thyme and apple. To cook it for 5 people, you need black tea. His, in the amount of 6 teaspoons, pour into the teapot. There also place 6 small fresh thyme shoots. Fill with liter of boiling water. While the tea-thyme mixture is brewing, take 1 apple. Desirable green varieties and sour. The apple peeled and cut into thin slices is laid out in tea cups, mixed with 1.5 teaspoons of sugar and cinnamon. In our recipe, you should take only 0.5 tsp of cinnamon and divide it into 5 glasses or cups. While the procedure was done with the apple, the tea was brewed and it can be poured into cups. Wait 1-2 minutes and start eating.
- An attack of headache will help to remove green tea with the addition of thyme and mint. The components of this medicine are mixed in equal proportions and poured boiling water. After 10 minutes, fragrant medicine is ready.
I really like thyme tea! And very fragrant, and very useful)